Our Solar System, like a sneaky little hobbit, seems to have stuffed its pockets full of hidden oceans. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have moons astronomers think might be harboring liquid ...

Spreading crushed stone across farm fields could inexpensively pull CO2 from the air while also increasing yields. But it ...

A magnitude 3.1 earthquake, with an epicenter 3 miles north-northwest of Oak Hill in the southern part of Jackson County, ...

Instead, the Axial Seamount sits on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, reaching about 3,500 feet above the surrounding seafloor ...

The Our Seas campaign seeks to reintroduce the three-mile trawling and dredging exclusion zone along Scotland’s coast.

Here the spreading sea floor opens up active hydrothermal vents ... She said it offers an opportunity to understand how the surface of the Earth is created and lost deep under the ocean.

The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...

Although battery metals are the subject of much hype, most rare earth minerals are at their ... much it will cost to bring nodules from the sea floor to the surface and how much it will cost ...

Surprisingly common, they account for most of Earth’s volcanic activity, particularly along mid-ocean ridges and subduction zones. These undersea eruptions play a critical role in creating new ...

Such spooktacular stories may soon be put to rest. In 2019, the U.S. began a seafloor mapping initiative that included the Great Lakes. The project should be able to take note of sunken vessels or ...